Awesome Internet Freedom

A starting list of projects and primary sources for understanding and resisting internet censorship. Follow each project's own documentation for current availability, safety guidance, and licensing. Inclusion here is not an endorsement or a promise that a tool is suitable for a particular country or threat model.

Measurement and open data

• Voidly Open Data — datasets, source attribution, and license notes.
• Voidly Methodology — how Voidly scores and qualifies observations.
• OONI — network measurements and public data.
• CensoredPlanet — remote censorship measurement.
• IODA — internet outage monitoring.
• Citizen Lab Test Lists — URL lists used in measurement research.

Circumvention and privacy

• Tor Project — Tor and its documentation.
• Snowflake — a Tor circumvention transport.
• Psiphon — circumvention software.
• Outline — tools for deploying and using a private server.
• WireGuard — VPN protocol and implementations.
• uBlock Origin — content blocker source and releases.

Communication and open protocols

• Signal — messaging app and security documentation.
• Briar — messaging designed for disrupted networks.
• Matrix — open communication protocol.
• ActivityPub — W3C federation specification.
• XMPP — open messaging protocol.
• Meshtastic — off-grid mesh communication project.

Research and advocacy

• Citizen Lab — digital rights and security research.
• Access Now — digital rights advocacy and shutdown tracking.
• Freedom House — Freedom on the Net reports.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation — digital rights research and advocacy.
• Open Technology Fund — support for internet freedom projects.

The earlier, larger catalog remains in Git history. Its descriptions and the repository's older machine-readable exports are historical until reconciled with this README.

To suggest a resource, read CONTRIBUTING.md. Describe what it does, link to its own documentation, and avoid unsupported claims about present reachability or safety.

List license: CC0 1.0.